Captain John Hawley
John, Ephraim's brother, inherited the house sometime after 1690 and before 1721 when his name appears in the land record when his next door neighbor Zachariah Curtiss gifted his entire farm to his son and used Captain John Hawley as part of the southern boundary. John was named Captain of the Second or North Company of the Stratford Train Band and was also Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County.
- Captain Robert Hawley
Robert, grandson of Captain John, was named Captain of the North Stratford Train Band in 1773 and at a special meeting on November 10, 1777, he was appointed to a committee to provide immediately all those necessaries for the Continental soldiers. On March 12, 1778, the parish of North Stratford made donations of provisions for those residents serving in the southern army stationed at Valley Forge under General George Washington.
- Eliakim and Sally Sara Hawley
In 1787, Eliakim, son of Captain Robert and Hannah, married his first cousin Sally Sara Hawley, great granddaughter of Captain John Hawley through Ephraim and Nathan, and received the new dwelling house as a gift from his father for love and good will. Eliakim operated a tavern nearby in Nichols center called E. Hawley's Tavern. In the early 1920s, the inn was cut in two and one part moved so a new street could be built to service a new elementary school. The wooden tavern sign is displayed at the Trumbull Historical Society museum. Eliakim withdrew from the Congregational Society of North Stratford on January 1, 1801 and joined the Episcopal Church of Trumbull. Sally Sara Hawley lived in the house for 60 years until her death in 1847 and was the last Hawley to live in the house.
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